On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:28 PM, insightinmind wrote: > >> >> Coupled with the IOPCI2PCIBridge indicating FW ... I suspect my drive >> being partially connected / powered is a prime candidate for being a >> troublemaker. >> >> Funny ... when connected to the Mac, but not the wall wart power >> supply, the power up lite comes on if I turn on the switch, but the >> disk won't mount on the Desktop of course because its not spinning. >> Perhaps with the wall wart on, and the drive off, it now thinks its >> supposed to be there? but isn't. > > > That sounds about right. FW, like USB will provide power; my 2.5" FW > drive is bus powered. I wonder if it's not waiting for the unpowered > drive/powered interface to respond before it moves on. > > If that's the case, this is a non-error error. It's just waiting, then > it times out. In that case this should not be related to any further > problems with the system. Many things that seem ominous in the boot > log aren't really ominous at all. Seems to be the case here, too. The non-ominous-ness. Things appeared cleaner after disconnecting at the FW port ... but later on, the M-Audio Delta Helper seems to have frozen the Startup, after functioning ok for awhile. I'm tired of this. Need to put it aside for awhile. I did startup from my Panther partition ... except that the Rosewill 10/100/1000 wasn't recognized, things looked ok ... nothing special. Have a Forum Thread in at M-Audio as well ... http://forums.m-audio.com/showthread.php?p=18120#post18120 Thanks for all the help so far. Wondering why things seem so jumbled lately ... maybe I should back off to 10.5.4? Dramatic Pause ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
